Research Interests

• Generic Entry
• Market Segmentation
• Product Proliferation
• Price Competition in the Prescription Drug Market
• Health Insurance and the Labor Market
• The Effects of Ability and Family and Language Background on Human Capital Formation
• Specification Error in Earnings Models and Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions

Selected Publications

• "Generic Entry, Price Competition, and Market Segmentation in the Prescription Drug Market"-Forthcoming International Journal of Industrial Organization
• "Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions," with Ronald L. Oaxaca
  -Forthcoming Journal of Population Economics
• IZA Discussion Paper No. 1920
• "A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Abilities and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels," with Ronald L. Oaxaca and Galen Burghardt
  -Economic Inquiry, vol. 45, no. 4, Oct. 2007, pp. 721-738
• IZA Discussion Paper No. 1927
• "An Overview of Generic Entry and Price Competition in the Prescription Drug Market" The Economics of Health Reforms, 2004 (J.N. Yfantopoulos, ATINER, Athens)

Teaching & Professional Experience

• Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona
• Research Assistant, University of Arizona
• Undergraduate Experimental Economics Lab Coordinator, University of Arizona

Degrees

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Arizona 2003
• M.A., Economics, University of Arizona 1999
• B.A., Economics (Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), University of Arizona 1998
• B.S., Mathematics (Summa cum Laude), University of Arizona 1998

Specialties

• Applied Microeconomics
• Health Economics
• Labor Economics